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Last June I didi a series of interviews with Alun Rodgers of Risual about the cool stuff in Windows Server 2008. In one of these.. Alun is telling me about how Terminal Services (now known as Remote Desktop Services, RDS, in Windows Server 2008 R2) could
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As I’ve said before I’m a bit unsure about whether IT Pros have the time or inclination to watch technical videos. With our shortened attention spans and demands on our time I am very sure that watching an hour long or even half hour video is going
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I see a lot of comments on Twitter making comments about how hard SQL Server is to install and so I thought I would go through a simple installation based on the August Technical Preview, SQL Server 2008 R2. I also used the latest operating system Windows
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Developers talking to DBA’s – what’s the world coming to? Despite what some people think and a few cheap jokes there are many areas of commonality between these two worlds particularly in SQL Server, and two of these are LINQ and entity framework.
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One of the Microsoft guys at the last SQL Bits events was Chris Guest who works in the Media Room team which is all about TV over the internet. I wasn’t sure why he was at a SQL Server event so I grabbed a camera (well two camera and and cameramen)
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In the final part of my interview with Alun Rodgers of Risual , we discuss the rollout out of Windows Server 2008 to branches of a well known fashion house. You won’t get any tips on dress sense watching this, but you will understand why such
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In the second part of my interview with Alun Rodgers of Risual , we discuss what’s new in Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008, and how he has been helping his customers to implement it. One use I hadn’t come across was to to provide access
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I was presenting SQL server 2008 at a NextGen community event and there was a Windows Server 2008 given by Alun Rodgers of Risual (a gold partner specialising in server infrastructure and unified comms). His session was so well received I thought
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I pulled down SQL Server 2008 RC0 over the weekend and I thought it would be good to get this running on Windows Server 2008. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of resources around on this but it’s not that hard, in fact you pretty much install Windows
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Here’s another SQL Server 2008 blogcast on manageability, this time on using Policy Management, to implement best practice in SQL Server: Technorati Tags: SQL Server 2008 , Policy Management
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Following on form my post on configuration servers in SQL Server 200, I thought you might like to see it in action so here’s a 5 minute blogcast on it… Technorati Tags: SQL Server 2008 , Configuration servers
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One of the biggest headaches in SQL Server 2005 is trying to manage resources where there are competing workloads on a shared server. A typical approach is to use instances, but this completely hides memory and CPU from other instances which are then
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SQL Server 2008 enables the use of geo-spatial data or location intelligence in four ways: a new geography data type (there's another one for 2D geometry), which can store points, lines, line segments and polygons A rich set of functions to make use of
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One of the problems with our TechNet road shows is getting at the content after the event. Of course we do provide the slide decks, but these can be abut thin as many IT Pro's (including us!) are power point averse, preferring see stuff in action. We
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There's a lot of buzz around Software plus Services (S+S) from Microsoft and others. It's all very simple as Eileen will tell you - it's when you use a service like GPS that's remote and public and combine it with some software like CoPilot
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